I sometimes wish to write on topics that I'm just familiar with. But as soon as I sit down to write, I realize that while I may have spent a few days reading about a topic, there are others who spend their entire careers reading and learning about them. Simply sharing any interesting articles I come across seems to have a much higher utility for everyone involved. Below, I am maintaining such a list.

Any article on health and medicine is not a substitute for consulting your own medical provider.

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Books

Cognitive Science Fundamentals

  • Computation and Cognition: Towards a Foundation for Cognitive Science by Zenon W. Pylyshyn
  • What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert Dreyfus

Life

  • What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
  • Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer
  • How Are We to Live by Peter Singer
  • What we owe the future by David MacAskill
  • Development as Freedom by Peter Singer
  • Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Cognition etc

  • Godel, Escher and Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind creates language by Steven Pinker
  • The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans by Michael Tomasello
  • The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness by Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka
  • Wonder: Childhood and the LIfelong Love of Science by Frank Keil

Mathematics

  • Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler
  • Challenge and Thrill of Pre-College Mathematics by C. R. Pranesachar and V Krishnamurthy

Fiction

  • Ender’s Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Blogs

Some of my Quora answers have been collected here. Most of them were written around 2014, before the decline of the platform began.

These days, I have moved to a static blog as well as Nostr. Earlier, I used to write on a wordpress blog. Some articles of potential general interest from wordpress blog include:

Around the end of high school and the beginning of college, I used to wonder if anything could be done to make middle school education less siloed. I ended up with a partly-made (10%?) website - alterschoolindia - that aimed at moving from one topic (eg: civics) to a distant another (eg: mathematics) through continuous interactive questioning.

Lacking an audience, and perhaps, more importantly, realizing that "useless" school education would be determined by the sociocultural system of a society, I lost the motivation for developing alterschoolindia further. It seems that to decide the school curriculum, one needs some opinions on the sociocultural system of a society – hopefully, there exists something more sensible/efficient than the modern democratic systems. Here, by "useless", I mean the modern notion that school education should focus on "useful" skills and knowledge that can actually be applied so that the future citizens can be more productive members of the labour-force society.